[geeks] 24 inch monitors

[Joshua Boyd]

On Jan 1, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>
> I haven't seen them in the flesh.  But while a bigger screen with more
> mixels would be nice, the next step up is 2560x1600, starts at over
> $1200 for the monitor alone, and would force me to upgrade my video  
> card
> as well to run it at native resolution, which would probably also  
> force
> me to either do a complete system reinstall and install a closed- 
> source
> driver, or go buy a current AccelX Summit series package and a video
> card supported by that.  Either way, I'd probably be looking at  
> $2000+.

I have high hopes for the state of graphics support on newer cards  
being much improved in the coming months.  The beta stuff for ATI is  
looking semi-decent.  The Nvidia free driver stuff is supposed to be  
getting close to usable.  And then for people with enough money,  
there will be the OpenGraphics card.  The odd part will be that it is  
a PCI-X card.  The good news is that it will support 2x dual link cards.